Direct evidence for mean-free-path effects in the magnetoresistance of magnetic multilayers with the current perpendicular to the planes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Michez, L A ^a   Hickey, B J ^a   Shatz, Smadar ^b   Wiser, Nathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRON; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM;

EID: 42749099974     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.052402     Document Type: Article

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